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Introducing broker vs affiliate: which model actually pays more?

An introducing broker is paid on trading. A forex affiliate is usually paid on signups. That single difference decides which model earns more on your traffic, and it is not the same answer for everyone.

6 min read

Benchmark

Forex IB commission benchmarks 2026

How to normalise two introducing broker offers so they can actually be compared: the denominator, the clawback, the attribution and the filters. Plus what we will publish from our own ledger, and why we have not published it yet.

4 min read

Technical

Cookieless affiliate tracking for brokers

Click identifiers, server to server postbacks, and why a broker affiliate programme that attributes on a browser cookie is losing conversions it never reports to you.

6 min read

Playbook

How to turn a trading Discord into a business

A chat group is an audience. A platform is a business. What changes between the two, what a white-labelled community platform actually includes, and the order to do it in.

4 min read

Playbook

Building a 5 tier sub-partner network that does not collapse

How the gap between your rate and a sub-partner's rate actually works, how to design a rate card that survives your best partner asking for more, and the three things that break a network.

4 min read

Growth

SEO for forex affiliates in a YMYL world

Financial content is held to a higher bar than most, and most of this industry buys traffic instead of earning it. The cluster structure, the trust signals and the technical requirements that still work.

5 min read